DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

• First Class.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

• "Cluster: America in the World/The World in America" (background essay; Heath 124-126)
• from Utopia (Thomas More; Heath 127)
• from Of Cannibals (Michel de Montaigne; Heath 127-128)
• America (Painting, Heath 128)
• from New Atlantis (Francis Bacon; Heath 130)
• "Native American Oral Narrative" Essay
• "The Origin of Stories" (Seneca)
• "Creation of the Whites" (Yuchi myth; Heath Vol. A, 73)
• "The Arrival of the Whites" (Lenape-Delaware oral tradition; Heath Vol. A, 74-79
• "Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations" (Iroquois)

Thursday, January 31, 2013

• Read and mark the following Selections from the Heath Vol. A:
• All of the selections by John Smith (Vol A. 273-287)
• From Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) (Vol A. 288-291)
• Read and mark "New England" (overview; Vol A. 314-318)

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

• Read and mark the entire *William Bradford section (Vol A. 348--370)

Thursday, February 7, 2013

• Read and mark the entire *Thomas Morton section (Vol. A 319-331)
• Read and mark the following selections from *Anne Bradstreet:
• "Anne Bradstreet 1612?-1672" (Vol A. 418-419)
• "The Prologue [To Her Book]" (Vol A. 420-421)
• "The Author to Her Book" (Vol A. 426)
• "The Flesh and the Spirit" (Vol A. 427-429)
• "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (Vol A. 430)
• "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Vol A 430-431)
• "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment" (Vol A. 431)
• "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old" (Vol A. 432)
• "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" (Vol A.433-434)
• "To My Dear Children" (Vol A.434 - 437)
• We will discuss the in-class essay that will take place in one week
• PRESENTATION: Abigail Galloway on Anne Bradstreet

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

• Read and mark "A Model of Christian Charity" by *John Winthrop (Vol. A 332-342)
• Read and mark "The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" by John William (Vol. A 537-1707)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

• Read and mark the following selections from *Cotton Mather:
• "Cotton Mather 1663-1728" (Vol A. 531-533)
• from The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vol A. 533-538)
• from The Negro Christianized (Vol A. 551-556)
• from Bonifacius . . . With Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in the World (Vol A. 556-557)
• There will be a test on The Negro Christianized: you will need to write an essay (with quotes) that discusses if the text is a pro-slavery message or a means of undermining the validity of slavery.  Everyone is required to take this exam.  See handout on exam card preparation.
• PRESENTATION: Harris Rissel on Cotton Mather

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

• Read and mark the following from *Jonathan Edwards:
• "Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758" (Vol. A 669-671)
• from Images of Divine Things (Vol A. 672-673)
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Vol A. 690-701)
• PRESENTATION: Maria Picciotti on Jonathan Edwaards
  

Thursday, February 21, 2013

• Read all of the selections of *William Byrd II (Vol A. 634-656)
• Paper #1 Prewriting Due. Post a copy in the "Paper #1: Prewriting" forum on the discussion board.
• Sign up for Turnitin.com and add our class.  See handout for details.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

• Draft of Paper #1 Due.  Bring a copy to class and post a copy to the discussion board in the "Paper #1: Draft" forum.  (20 points)
• The draft will be assessed according to the following scale: 20 points for a full draft with works cited, 15 for 4 pages without a works cited, 10 for 3 pages, 5 for 2 pages, and 2 for 1 page.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

• Midterm Exam.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

• Final Draft Paper #1 Due

Thursday, March 7, 2013

• Read and mark the entire *Thomas Paine section (Vol. A 989-1008)
• PRESENTATION: Jin Soo Park on Thomas Paine

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

• Read and mark Notes on the State of Virginia by *Thomas Jefferson (Vol. A 1022-1042)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

• Read and mark "Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions" (Vol. A  1059-1073)

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

• No Class.  Spring Break.
• Last day to withdraw without a signature.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

• No Class.  Spring Break.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

• Read and mark The Autobiography of *Benjamin Franklin (Vol. A 837-840, 861-923)

Thursday, March 28, 2013 (Updated 3/26/2013)

• NO CLASS: Dr. Halbert will be out of state at a memorial service.
• Read and mark Vol A, pages 1008-1016 on John and *Abigail Adams
• Read and mark all the selections by Sarah Moore Grimke and by Angelina Grimke (VOL B. 2238-2248)
• Read and mark "Declaration of Sentiments" (Vol B. 2270-2272
• Read and mark the entire *Fanny Fern Section (Vol B. 2256-2266)
• We will discuss the Frederick Douglass in-class exam that will take place in one week.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

• Read and mark the introduction to *Frederick Douglass and Chapters 1-9 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2035- 2070).
• PRESENTATION: Devon Deitrich on Abigail Adams
• PRESENTATION: Serena Dunlap on Fanny Fern.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

• Finish reading and marking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, (Vol. B. 2035-2101)
• We will have our in-class essay exam on Frederick Douglass today.  Bring your exam card.
• PRESENTATION: Anisah Covington on Frederick Douglass

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

• Read the following selections by *Phillis Wheatley:
• "Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 (Vol A 1297-1299)
• "To MÏcenas" (Vol A 1299-1301)
• "To the Right Honoruable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c" (Vol A 1302-1303)
• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (Vol A 1306)
• "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (Vol A 1308-1309)
• "To His Excellency General Washington" (Vol A 1311-1312)
• "Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters" (Vol A 1313-1314)
• PRESENTATION: Alyssa Goodman on Phillis Weatley

Thursday, April 11, 2013

• Read and mark the following selections from *Washington Irving:
• "Washington Irving" (Vol B. 2299-2301)
• from A History of New York, Chapter 5 (Vol B. 2301--2309)
• Read the following selections from A Sheaf on Humor of the Old Southwest:
• Sheaf introduction (Vol B.2276-2279, including the ad)
• All of the selections by Davy Crockett (Vol B. 2279-2282)
• All of the selections by Mike Fink (Vol B. 2283-2287)

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

• Read and mark the following selections by *Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Vol B. 1704-1706)
• "Nature" (Vol B. 1708-1710)
• "Beauty" (Vol. B. 1711-1714)
• "The American Scholar"
• Self-Reliance (Vol B. 1746-1762)
• PRESENATION: Marissa Zellers on Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, April 18, 2013

• Read and mark the following the following by *Henry David Thoreau:
• "Henry David Thoreau" (Vol B. 1859-1862)
• "Resistance to Civil Government" (Vol B. 1862-1876)
• PRESENTATION: Tarah Organtini on Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

• Read and mark selections from Walden by *Henry David Thoreau (Vol. B 1877-1911)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

• Prewriting for Paper #2 Due. Post a copy in the Paper 2: Prewriting Forum.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

• Read and mark the following selections from *Edgar Allen Poe:
• "Edgar Allen Poe" (Vol B. 2484-2486)
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Vol B. 2497-2510)
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Vol B. 2517-2520)
• "The Purloined Letter" (Vol B.  2527-2539)
• "The Raven" (Vol B. 2564-2567)
• "Annabel Lee" (Vol B. 2570-2571)
• PRESENTATION: Valerie Andreyko on Edgar Allen Poe

Thursday, May 2, 2013

• Read and mark "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by *Herman Melville (Vol. B 2647-2677)
• Read and mark "Young Goodman Brown" by *Nathaniel Hawthorne (Vol. B 2398-2401, 2422-2430)
• PRESENTATION: Jordan Feldman on Herman Melville
• PRESENTATION: John Harkins on Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

• Last Class.
• Read and mark the following from *Walt Whitman:
• "Walt Whitman 1819-1892" biography (Vol B. 2992-2995)
• "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" (Vol. B 3087-3088)
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Vol. B 3089-3096)
• "Prayer of Columbus" (Vol. B 3097-3099)
• "To a Locomotive in Winter" (Vol. B 3100)

Thursday, March 9, 2013

• No Class.
• Paper #2 Final Draft due.

Final Exam: Tuesday, May 14, 12:20 PM to 2:20 PM in our normal classroom.